Beholder

Statistics / Abilities

Magic

Acquisition

Location

Contents

Obtaining Beholder is slightly more complex than the other Animal Orbs. You must first play through Full Moon with Cardinal who is in the industrialist building it will find the Key Sword and give it to you. You must then head back to the Animal Ark to hit the lock with the Key Sword or use either the Boomerang or the Horn with the Key Sword equipped. You can find this lock at the very back of the Ark. The lock will break bringing you to a dark room with Beholder waiting inside for you.

Primary Ability

"Magic Enhancement"

Beholder will increase your magic stat by +2 skill points.

This is thought by a lot of players to be a very useful effect; this isn't the case. The +2 magic will only affect damage outside of use with a +3 magic weapon to become +5. In terms of magic bonuses like faster regeneration, greater splash attack range/hits, etc., +1-4 magic is the same as +0, and +6-8 is the same as +5, so outside of use with a +3 magic weapon, beholder is only impairing XP accumulation, and when there are plenty of pets that have uses far more effective than damage, using Beholder outside of bumping +3 magic weapons up is pointless.

Beholder

Statistics / Abilities

Magic

Acquisition

Location

Obtaining Beholder is slightly more complex than the other Animal Orbs. You must first play through Full Moon with Cardinal, who will find the Key Sword and give it to you. You must then head back to the Animal Ark to hit the lock with the Key Sword or use the Horn with the Key Sword equipped. You can find this lock at the very back of the Ark. The lock will break bringing you to a dark room with Beholder waiting inside for you.

Primary Ability

"Magic Enhancement"

Beholder will increase your magic stat by +4 skill points. This makes it much more useful in the Remastered version, as it will bump up a magic weapon up to +5 points, making it receive magic bonuses such as faster regeneration, greater splash attack range/hits, etc., regardless if the weapon has +1 point or +4. This indirectly buffs a majority of the weapons, as in the Original version many weapons such as the Necrotana or King's Mace would not receive said benefits from Beholder, whereas in the Remastered version they would receive the aforementioned magic bonuses. However, it is ill-advised to use this on a weapon with 0 magic or less, as weapons will not get magic bonuses and have their magic deal slightly more damage, thus making Beholder impair your XP accumulation and does not allow the player to use more beneficial pets.
Regardless, Beholder is now a significantly better pet and is now a much more used pet as a result. It is now viewed by most as a very useful pet, being ranked very high on the Pet Tiers